Chap. 53.] BEMEDIES FOB COUGH. 343 



CHAP. 52. KEMEDIES FOE PAINS IN THE NECK. 



For pains in the neck, the part should be well rubbed with 

 butter or bears' grease ; and for a stiff neck, with beef suet, a 

 substance which, in combination with oil, is very useful for 

 the cure of scrofula. For the painful cramp, attended with 

 inflexibility, to which people give the name of " opisthotony," 

 the urine of a she-goat, injected into the ears, is found very 

 useful ; as also a liniment made of the dung of that animal, 

 mixed with bulbs. 



In cases where the nails have been crushed, it is an excel- 

 lent plan to attach to them the gall of any kind of animal. 

 Whitlows upon the fingers should be treated with dried 

 bull's gall, dissolved in warm water. Some persons are in the 

 habit of adding sulphur and alum, of each an equal weight. 



CHAP. 53. REMEDIES FOR COUGH AND FOR SPITTING OF BLOOD. 



A wolf's liver, administered in mulled wine, is a cure for 

 cough ; a bear's gall also, mixed with honey ; the ashes of the 

 tips of a cow's horn ; or else the saliva of a horse, taken in the 

 drink for three consecutive days in which last case the horse 

 will be sure to die, they say. 66 A deer's lights are useful for 

 the same purpose, dried with the gullet of the animal in the 

 smoke, and then beaten up with honey, and taken daily as an 

 electuary : the spitter 67 deer, be it remarked, is the kind that 

 is the most efficacious for the purpose. 



Spitting of blood is cured by taking ashes of burnt deer's 

 horns, or else a hare's rennet in drink, in doses of one-third 

 of a denarius, with Samian earth and myrtle- wine. The dung 

 of this last animal, reduced to ashes and taken in the evening, 

 with wine, is good for coughs that are recurrent at night. 

 The smoke, too, of a hare's fur, inhaled, has the effect of bring- 

 ing off from the lungs such humours as are difficiflt to be dis- 

 charged by expectoration. Purulent ulcerations of the chest 

 and lungs, and bad breath proceeding from a morbid state of 

 the lungs, are successfully treated with butter boiled with an 

 equal quantity of Attic honey till it assumes a reddish hue, a 

 spoonful of the mixture being taken by the patient every 

 morning : some persons, however, instead of honey prefer 

 using larch-resin for the purpose. In cases where there are 



56 " Earn mori tradimt." The reading here is very doubtful. 

 * "Subulo." 



